theyellowhobbit

I've been bad about posting, and I should catch up.

First of all, from last Saturday, there was the Settlers of Catan cake:

The Settlers of Purim Catan

adlight and

currentlee are awesome. All the awesomeness of the cake comes from them. I just ate it.

So there was a party, and I introduced

navelofwine to Settlers (I think she was the only one in the game who had never played before). We were all on teams, except for

adlight. I placed badly in the beginning (I should have listened to my instinct- always start with wheat) and thus did not win. But I did have dsKC to help me with the dice-rolling a few times, once where if I had rolled a 7 I would have lost a city. Apparently he has magical dice rolling powers. There were other games being played as well, though I didn't get to participate because the Settlers game took forever.

The leftover cake made it to non-constitutional nominations on Sunday night. Though before that my parents took me out for lunch for my birthday, and my brother even came down for the occasion, though he got lost and gave up and started to go home, but then got reverse lost and ended up in Brookline. That takes talent. My Grandma felt the need to give us all Valentine's day presents, and thus I ended up with a nice sum of money (in addition to my birthday present from her). If I were to spend it in the spirit of Valentine's day I would blow it all on expensive chocolate, but Valentine's day is passed so I no longer feel the need for expensive chocolate. (That, and she gave me a box of Godiva chocolates anyways.) I suppose I could spend it all on yarn and roving. I can always use more yarn. Right now the majority went into the bank, and I'm thinking maybe I'll spend the Valentine's day money and keep the other money it the bank. Then again, it will all disappear from rent and utilities and stuff, so maybe I should just spend it. Anyone want to go yarn shopping with me?

Back to non-cons. They were long. I got a lot of spinning done. And

pastwatcher nominated me for rabbi. After a year of JTS wanting my soul, I had finally escaped to Div School, only to be nominated for rabbi. And since no one else was nominated, I probably will win. Not that non-cons mean anything. They're just for fun/hazing new co-chairs. Here are last year's non-cons, so you can see what I mean:

Non-Cons!

This year we decided to nominate people/things for the seven deadly sins, 4 horsemen of the apocalypse, and also of note is that "no cartwheels in the con suite" was nominated for the category of rule #1. (Apparently I didn't mention this is my entries on Vericon. I wrote on the blackboard in the con suite "No Cartwheels in the Con Suite." This generated a lot of questions. But it's not like there's much room to do cartwheels in there anyways.) And when Randall Munroe was nominated for "fuzzy" I squeed, and then was nominated for fan-girl. So I, in turned, nominated hKC, since he is definitely a fan girl and not a fan boy. My projects are also nominated for "fuzzy." And I am nominated for famine, since I don't eat real food. And I nominated "your mom" for lust. Etc.

Then we had the first meeting of the Sunday D&D campaign. And it was shiny. Sadly, it was rushed because non-cons took forever.

Then there was a week of stuff. I had a massage on Monday, which was good since my back was dying a horrible death. On Tuesday there was ice cream with EY and the actual hot-chocolate with hKC, as opposed to last week's kinda hot-chocolate. Wednesday was full of class. Thursday included some hanging outness late at night. And my 3-5 seminar was cancelled, which was shiny. And Friday was gaming. And Shabbat. I led ma'ariv, and then I led psukei this morning because I was super-early (

silkspinner's clock on the microwave in her common room is really fast, and I didn't know this until I went into her room and saw it was 9 and not 9:30.) I messed up my Torah reading because there were tons of vowels (

elfsdh says that there are always vowels. This is true, but in this case the vowels were not what I expected them to be.) I realized this morning as I was reading the English translation that the portion I read (aliyah 2 of Vayakhel) talked about the women spinning wool and spinning flax of shiny colors for the tabernacle. This made me happy. The perfect aliyah for me (except for those vowels). Also, it was only 9 verses long, so that was nice (but it still had vowels!)

There was nothing going on this afternoon, so I decided to walk home, since it was nice enough. I took a bit of a nap until Shabbat ended.

E-Hobbit might be coming to visit me this coming Shabbat. This makes me happy. And I can introduce her to HRSFA. Yay!